03/30/2026
Eight years ago this week, on April 2nd, I was diagnosed with Graves' Disease, a diagnosis that would change my entire existence, my purpose in life, and my reason for living.
After just one month of taking methimazole, a medication prescribed to treat Graves’ Disease, I became deathly ill and ended up in the ICU fighting for my life. Three doctors told me I would die.
What was supposed to heal me nearly killed me.
Lying in that ICU room near-death with complete immune system failure, zero neutrophils, sepsis, fevers spiking to 105.8° 10+ times a day, I realized something...the system designed to heal me had failed me. Sepsis with zero neutrophils is a death sentence. Yet I survived.
That's when everything shifted.
I stopped waiting for permission to get better. I stopped accepting "this is how it is." I started the most transformative journey of my life and discovered that real healing is possible when you give your body what it's been begging for.
I created Salt n’ Sauna because I know what it's like to suffer. I know what it's like to live with chronic pain, chronic immune disfunction, chronic respiratory issues, and a body that feels like it's working against you. I know what it's like when the medical system dismisses what it doesn't understand.
And I know what it's like on the other side, when you finally find the therapies that work for you, when inflammation calms, when your nervous system regulates, when you can breathe freely again, when your body remembers what it feels like to heal.
That's what I want for you.
Whether you're battling an autoimmune disease, chronic pain, chronic stress, respiratory issues, or simply exhausted, you deserve a space where healing is possible. Where you don't have to advocate, explain, or justify…you can just be, breathe, and heal. Here's to eight years of healing…yours and mine.
With gratitude and love,
Kim
